Monday, June 02, 2008
Bomba is an Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance form that dates back to the 17th century
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 Monday, May 19, 2008
Contributions to this Special Issue (Volume 5, Number 3) should address Folksonomies, Taxonomies, Knowledge Organizartion, the Web and Search Engines. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
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 Monday, May 12, 2008
Powerset is gonna get Google but Good! On Monday, a story on Powerset launched a new semantic search engine that allows users to input natural language queries to find items. So far, Powerset simply indexes Wikipedia, but the speculation is that the site may branch out to the Web at large.
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 Friday, May 09, 2008
Philadelphia Regional Foody Folk cheese steak, hoagie, hokey-pokey man, hog island, south philly, italian, irish american vernaular english
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 Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Tom Dula was hanged 140 years ago. The murder that sold 10,000 guitars. His guilt may be a matter of debate, but his legend -- and the song that cemented it -- are indisputable.
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 Sunday, May 04, 2008
Countdown’s Bushed!: You Gotta Be Kidding Me Edition: Next is an update on the Orwellian No Child Left Behind program, which has resulted in graduation ratios going down and schools hurting for funding country-wide. Turns out that the cornerstone of the program, Reading First, a program emphasizing literacy administered by the president’s brother, Neil Bush, has not proven to be effective whatsoever. So the reality is that NCLB is actually leaving children behind in favor of lining the pocket of the Bush family.
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 Thursday, April 24, 2008
National Children's Folksong Repository Video Literacy, Music, Play, Reading, Games, Health, Fun, Alan Slutsky, Carla Benson, Alan Lomax, Funk Brothers
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Oldie but Goodie from 1999
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 Thursday, April 17, 2008
Do you just want science info or do you want both K-12 Newsletter? Find the RSS feed that delivers the topic you want.
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 Wednesday, January 30, 2008
"The Kickoff Webcast with Karen Ellis" webcast.
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 Saturday, January 26, 2008
The aim of this colloquium is to further our understanding of the linguistic properties of Creole languages. More specifically, this colloquium will seek to examine the typological status of Creoles by examining empirical evidence concerning the morphological, phonological, syntactic and semantic properties found in Creole languages.
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 Saturday, December 22, 2007
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 Monday, December 17, 2007
Ethnomusicologists study music in varying ethnic contexts. She studied the music of the Sephardim, Jews. Folk Songs: She knew Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, The Weavers.
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 Thursday, December 13, 2007
New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids vol. 81 (3&4) 2007 - Articles and Book Reviews
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 Wednesday, December 05, 2007
NetHappenings Google's campaign to digitize the world's books. How to work with Google.
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 Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Book Review: In this illuminating book, Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners.
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 Sunday, November 25, 2007
Contains details of slave holders in Barbados and Antigua who received compensation under the terms of the 1833 slave emancipation act.
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"To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence" "We've got a public culture which is almost entirely commercial- and novelty-driven," says NEA chairman Dana Gioia. "I think it's letting the nation down."
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 Saturday, November 24, 2007
Get the Widget for your website - Education, News, Law, Security, Literacy, K - 12, Internet, NetHappenings, Technology, Music, Science, Literacy, Arts,Books,
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 Thursday, November 22, 2007
Known as the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time. Early Twentieth Century Afro-Caribbean Activist/Intellectual in Harlem.
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 Friday, November 16, 2007
In a nutshell, this is what I think about and publish.
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 Thursday, November 15, 2007
2007 American Book Award Winner and Author Dan Cassidy of How the Irish Invented Slang will be meeting Spike Slattery's grandson. Spike was the guy who first used the word jazz in front of Scoop Gleeson at a reading in Sonoma, CA where the old jazz and gin-i-ker came back to life.
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November is National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Find: Thanksgiving, Native American Dance, Music, Language, The debate about mascots, The Oneida hymn tradition, Buffy Saint-Marie, Bureau of Archives and History Pennsylvania State Archives. First Nation Rights Activists, Law, Alaska People, Black First Nation People, Tainos, Carib First Nation People who lived in the U.S.Caribbean Islands, HAWAIIANS The first settlers of Hawai'i.
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 Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The secret motivation that makes students read. Debates about improving student performance rarely take into consideration an important perspective of students, that is, how much they value an education and whether they see education as a path to success. Children who are emotionally involved by having fun and enjoying the activity. Test subjects are able to remember twice as many emotional words and pictures as neutral ones.
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Interdiscipliary - TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculum
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 Monday, November 12, 2007
The Ethnographic Thesaurus is a hierarchical listing of subject terms from folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields. The Thesaurus will improve access to cultural materials and scholarship by affording researchers, archivists, indexers, librarians, and others a common language for description.
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